AMD

The pay and benefits are decent, and it's a relatively big, stable company.

I worked in the Markham office.

Horrible work ethics and expectations. Sometimes, employees have to stay in the office till midnight; it's crazy.

Even interns have to stay till 7-8pm, especially when a project deadline is approaching.

The employees, at least in my team, had no life outside of work, so I guess they didn't mind working long hours.

Working with them everyday was kinda depressing because all we talked about was work. They didn't have any hobbies, side projects, or just didn't want to share.

Felt very isolating to work here.

Yeah, do more team-building events. Invest in services that help introverts open up a bit.

Also, there is a lot of groupism/nepotism in this office. People hire based on contacts instead of actual qualifications.

Like, why would you hire someone from health science to do software development when you could easily find a computer engineer/computer science student through online applications? Oh, because they did a 4-month programming course and they are your nephew's "friend"? Sure, why not.

Just make things harder for existing employees since now we have to babysit their incompetent butts.

Also, increase diversity, please, for gender, race, and religion without compromising the qualifications of the new hires. That's how you can avoid groupism.